Karla quoted in WBUR story by David Boeri on 17 November

‘“Fifty-eight percent of children are fleeing from violent gangs,” said Karla Castillo, who helped interview 600 children who left El Salvador to go north but were stopped and returned back home. Her interviews reveal the stark conditions in a country with the world’s fourth highest rate of violence against children.

“They have a choice: they have to choose between die in the route or die here is El Salvador,” she said. “They prefer to die on the route. They prefer to try to reach the United States because there is, maybe, a little possibility.”